One of the moms in that picture saying, quote, my baby would have died if she had stayed in venezuela. Important reminder of the struggles that country is still facing. The photographer here, nachos doche from reuters. You can send me a snapchat or instagram. More news nor from ali vels who only has good things to say. Good afternoon. Ill probably catch you later this afternoon. Thursday august 23rd, lets get smarter. Michael cohen, tell me about your relationship with him. He was a lawyer for me for one of many. They would say the lawyer and they would add the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. Yo i dont know where that term came from. He didnt do big deals. Small deals. Turned out he wasnt that good,
frankly. Did the funds come out of the campaign . They didnt come out of the campaign, they came from me. Its not even a campaign violation. If you look at president obama, he had a Massive Campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general. Almost everybody that runs for off
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Might win. the reason why jail does not work as a deterrent, is because a lot of people do us dint in prison and they come out and they go, well, i can do that. now i m going to go back to the street, because that wasn t that bad. for a lot of people, it s like, we survived trump. it wasn t that bad. covid does not count on his record, for some reason. we can do this again. and it doesn t make any sense. and i give a footnote to the oligarchs story? a lot of those guys ended up exiled or dead. i don t think a lot of these folks understand the final end result of autocracy. you are asking for people to have something beyond short- term is him. but see, we are talking about hugely successful masters of the universe who believe, well, that will never happen to me. you know that s the way they all think. and none of them think trump is clever. i think they also are
Trump offers, the ego. and if you have a massive ego for these masters of the universe, wall street, silicon valley, i completely understand why you rock with trump. that ego seems like that is my kind of guy, that s the guy want to be with. i am also just not convinced that they actually like him. they don t. they think he is a fool. i think they are unbothered by the performance that trump does, which is a key visceral distinction that i have with these people. but i also think that what they want is power. trump offers them power. these guys right now believe they can purchase a phone into the oval office if donald trump wins. and it was funny, somebody on tv just said to me the other day, yeah, but what if donald trump turns on them? he might, though. and joe biden definitively well not. so they will roll the dice. i think you make a mistake in this country, that because you made a lot of money here
Autocracy. you are asking for people to have something beyond short- term. we are talking about hugely successful masters of the universe who believe that will never happen to me. you know that is the way they all think. i think that is right. i think they are not thinking it through and i think they are also are missing getting back to the first conversation we had, the essential connection between democracy and free markets. what makes free markets work is the rule of law, and if the rule of wall is something that is on the whim of the president you have a real president problem with your free markets. let s talk about these loud, influential voices who are suddenly backing former president trump. why they would be doing it. i actually understand, inflation has been really difficult. you want to buy a house, you want to rent an apartment, you want to get insurance, things are really difficult. but suddenly this group of